(from http://nut.bz/2roe2s9x/)How an innocent person can be cheated by becoming friends with him in a social net working site

story of a cheat

It all started with a social site named tagged.com. But that site
cannot be held responsible for what I am going to narrate. As in many
social sites like facebook.com, myboomerplace.com, twitter.com,
googleplus, etc. two persons became friends, one from India and other
from UK. So, Mr.Peter from India met one Ms.Stella from Edingburgh
and started friendly relations. They slowly became closer and began
online real time chat through Yahoo Messenger. Peter was a respectable
man with a family and children and living peacefully. And according to
Stella, she was a divorcee with two sons and living independently with
her children. According to her, she was working for a Natural Herbal Company as a medical consultant.
Her job included procurement of raw materials in the form of natural
herbal seeds from other countries including India and deliver to her
company at Edinburgh and getting payment for that, from the company. She
had also made Peter believe that she had visited many places in India
during her previous visits and the places in India included, Kochi, (the
native state of Peter), Bangalore, Calcutta, Mumbai, Delhi, Faridabad
etc. And one day she told Peter, their company representative will be
visiting India to procure a raw material named veronica herbal seed and
he should help the man to get the supply without any difficulty. She
also gave Peter about the source of supply and the telephone number of
the person to meet and procure the seeds. For purchasing 100 packets of
the seeds, an amount of 6000 dollars have to be spend, and Peter will be
getting back about 15000 dollars when the man from the company arrives
India and taking delivery of the materials. Also another purchase order
was issued by her company to procure 500 packets. And stella insisted
peter to buy the initial quantity of 100 packets with his money and keep
it ready when the representative arrives India.And Peter believed
all these things and went to Faridabad and purchased 100 packets
spending 6000 dollars from his pocket. After two days, the man from
Edinburgh (Patrick Rhondo) arrived Mumbai and telephoned Peter about his
arrival and asked him to wait till he reaches Trivandrum to take
delivery of the material and the payment. And Peter waited. Next
day, another message from Patrick came to Peter stating that he had
visited his embassy at Mumbai and according to the embassy people, the
money cannot be taken to Trivandrum, and a bank account is to be opened
at Mumbai, to transfer the money in Indian currency to Peter’s local
bank account in Trivandrum. For opening the account some forms were send
online and Peter completed the entries and forwarded it to the address
which Patrick had given. After that another message came stating that
some Indian rupees will have to be paid to the Bank at Mumbai, towards
the transfer charges of the amount. The amount was Indian Rupees Two
hundred and thirty five thousand equivalent to almost 5000 US dollars.
And an account details was given by Patrick to transfer the amount. The
details of the account was as follows:Name: CATHYAccount Number: 00111000172965Bank Name: HDFCBank code: IFST/FF/D/18011214.And
Peter transferred the money from his bank account to the above address.
And Patrick told Peter to wait till hearing from the bank.Next day,
Patrick told Peter to open his mail account and see the letter from the
bank. Yes, the letter from the bank was in his mail inbox. And as per
directions given in that letter, Peter started to transfer the amount to
his local bank account. It started fine, and the transfer was
progressing percentage by percentage. When the percentage reached 42,
the page became struck and will not go forward. So peter tried to find
out what was wrong and contacted the persons from the bank from which
the mail had come.Then another mail came stating that, for
transferring the amount, a code was to be recorded, and for getting the
code, another amount of about 8000 dollars would be required. At this
point, Peter became doubtful and started to rethink about the whole
affair. Then slowly he came to understand about the whole situation. And
at last found that the site was a phishing site. By that time his money
worth 11000 dollars were already gone. Although he tried to contact
Peter as well as stella, no response was available from them. The phone
number given by stella was +447017047748 in which Peter communicated
several times earlier. And the number of Patrick was +918860570879 from
which he had contacted Peter. And the person who supplied the herbal
seed was Sonia gupta and her number was 918860693032.That was the
story in which a poor man from India was cheated with 11000 US dollars
worth of Indian Rupees. This needs to be circulated to all people who
are doing something in internet, so that no one gets cheated in similar
circumstances.I also hope that if any person can give any advice as
to how to trace the cheaters with the above telephone numbers and the
bank account, I will be glad to hear from them. The numbers given were
real at least at the times of the dealing which was the first week of
June 2012. And Peter does not want to involve himself in any such
scandals. And almost left the internet after this incident.